Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

C. F. DAVIS

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            A prominent rancher and fruit-grower of Yuba County, C. F. Davis has 
long been engaged in development work, both in the Eastern States and in 
California, and his success can be attributed to persevering energy and 
far-sighted methods of agriculture and horticulture.  Born near Haddam, 
Washington County, Kans., on February 23, 1873, he is the eldest of five 
children surviving their parents.  W. H. and Sarah E. (Brown) Davis, natives of 
Iowa and Kansas, respectively.  C. F. Davis was reared on a farm in Kansas, and 
there learned the rudiments of soil cultivation.  He left home at the age of 
twenty, and in 1893 was married to Miss Iona Gregory.  She was born in De Kalb 
County, Mo., and was the second child of the late James M. and Amanda E. 
(Hudgins) Gregory, both natives of that State, who settled in California in 
1895.
            In 1896, C. F. Davis homesteaded in Custer County, Okla.  For 
twenty-five years he has been an extensive farmer, and at present still owns 320 
acres of land.  In 1896 and 1897 he spent a year in Yolo County, Cal.  In 1917 
he brought his family to California, locating in Yuba County.  Since then he has 
made three trips to Oklahoma to attend to his interests there.  At the same 
time, he has been carrying on much development work in Yuba County, near 
Marysville, his sons being associated with him in the work of clearing, leveling 
and planting bottom lands; they are at present engaged in developing orchards, 
having recently set out over sixty acres to peach trees, and fifteen acres to 
cherries and prunes, which have shown the phenomenal growth characteristic of 
this section of the Golden State. Both Mr. Davis and his sons cultivate the land 
with a true understanding of its real possibilities, and at the same time enrich 
the soil for future generations.
            Nine children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Davis.  Lloyd L. is 
associated with his father; he married Grace Hampton, and has two children, 
Dorothy and Evelyn June.  Roy E. is a rancher; he married Mary Sligar, and is 
the father of one daughter, Sybil.  Arthur M. is also a rancher; he married 
Marie Shingle, and they have one son, Calvin.  Edith E. is the wife of Harvey 
Lolmaugh and the mother of one daughter, Marie.  Gladys M. married Carl Hart.  
Fern married Warren Shingle, and has a son, Louis.  The others are Edna, Everett 
H., and Owen R.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1292